Pokemon Interview; All Your Pokemon World questions answered

[CM30]

Game Informer asked both Junichi Masuda and Takao Unno questions about the Pokemon series world and canon, with some fairly interesting things being mentioned. Want to know what it's like in a Pokeball or whether humans could eat Rare Candy? Read on!

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/11/23/pok-233-mon-39-s-burning-questions.aspx?PostPageIndex=1

Some choice quotes:

It’s funny you bring up Rare Candy, because my next question is, can humans eat Rare Candy, and what happens if they do?
Masuda: You probably could eat a rare candy as a human, but it might not taste very good. It might be kind of like, an example of our world, a human eating dog food. It’s edible, but it probably doesn’t taste very good. You might hurt your stomach by doing so.

What happens when a gym leader runs out of badges to give away? Are they fired?
Unno: The gym leaders, they’re primarily there because they have a strong desire to help trainers grow and really identify the good trainers. They only give badges to trainers who they have recognized as being strong of heart and a strong battler as well. So, they definitely don’t quit when they run out of badges if they were to run out of badges. The only time they would quit or stop being a gym leader is when perhaps their ideals change or they want to do something else in life.
And if a gym leader were able to actually give out so many badges to so many great trainers that they ran out of them, they would probably be overjoyed by that fact, that there were so many great trainers that came to challenge them.

and about the Pokemon World and Earth:

Masuda: We actually don’t think of the world of Pokémon as Earth. If we were to do that, we would kind of be limited by what we could do. By thinking about how physical objects work on Earth and how various elements work on Earth, we would kind of be limited to that if we though of it as Earth. We think of it as a place that is really similar to Earth, but is a different planet of its own with people in it who may be similar to people on Earth, but they have different values so they care about different things.
It’s the type of place, the Pokémon world, where problems we face on Earth just wouldn’t happen. There wouldn’t be global warming, water shortages, or anything like that. It’s a world where the people in it really want to work together with each other. Their value system is such where they would prefer to work together and eliminate these problems rather than feud.

So if you have any questions about Pokemon canon and how the world and mechanics supposedly work, read Game Informer's interview! It's not exactly too serious, but it's pretty good!

 

[Moclon]

He actually asked if people eat Pokemons.

Pikachu Steaks and Steaked Lucario pl0x.

 

[Porkman]

Just read the interview, it was pretty interesting. I like to see the developers point of view for games like these.

 

[benoit489]

I read it and I don't think the interview was any good. There wasn't anything new or interesting said. The interviewer even brings up the theory about Ditto being a failed attempt to make Mew and the guy just responds that he never heard that before and that all Pokemon are unique. Just seemed like a bunch of "The Pokemon world is perfect and everybody loves everybody blah blah blah"